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East End rapist pleads guilty to attacks last summer

A 20-year-old man Wednesday morning admitted he raped one woman and sexually assaulted another in Rochester's East End last summer.

Marvin Sevilla-Rosales pleaded guilty to first-degree rape, predatory sexual assault and conspiracy to commit murder in state Supreme Court, said Assistant District Attorney Julie Hahn. In turn, he will face an agreed upon prison term of 25 years to life, she said.

Hahn said Sevilla-Rosales, in June 2013, raped a woman in the front yard of an apartment building on East Avenue. Five days later, he raped a second woman in an apartment on Alexander Street.

After he was arrested, he plotted from the Monroe County Jail to have one of the women killed to ensure she would not testify against him, Hahn said.

Both women were in their 20s and did not know Sevilla-Rosales. DNA evidence confirmed Sevilla-Rosales was their attacker, according to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office.

"What this defendant did to these two young victims is every woman's nightmare," Hahn said. "The streets of Rochester are most definitely safer with Marvin Sevilla-Rosales behind bars."

Hahn said Sevilla-Rosales is scheduled to be sentenced by Justice Renzi on May 28.